Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Universality Limits of a Reproducing Kernel for a Half-Line Schrodinger Operator and Clock Behavior of Eigenvalues
Anna Maltsev,
graduate student in mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
John Carpenter,
deputy director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and senior research associate in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Ocean Dynamics in the Eddying Regime
Christopher Wolfe,
postgraduate researcher,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Pigments Probed via Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Judy Kim,
Professor,
University of California, San Diego,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Progress Toward an Enantioselective Synthesis of Ineleganolide
Jennifer Roizen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Polymers
Geoffrey W. Coates,
professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
'Value-System' Mediators of Expectancy Effects on Pain
Tor Wager,
assistant professor of psychology,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Incremental Growth of a Large Magma Chamber: Field and Analytical Studies of the Cretaceous Tuolumne Batholith, California
Vali Memeti,
lecturer in geology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine
Roger Romani,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "How to Drive a Robot"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Autonomous Mobile Robotics
Andrew Howard,
senior member of technical staff,
Computer Vision Group,
JPL,
Friday, October 16th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions
Eva Silverstein,
Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Superstring in AdS4xCP3
Linus Wulff,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Bio-Inspired Aerial and Underwater Vehicles for Distributed Mobile Sensor Networking
Kamran Mohseni,
associate professor of aerospace engineering sciences,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthetic Modeling of Iron-Containing Nitrile Hydratase (Fe-NHase) and its Photoregulation by Nitric Oxide (NO): The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Michael J. Rose,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "How to Drive a Robot"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
"How to Drive a Robot"
Andrew Howard,
senior member of technical staff,
Computer Vision Group,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
9:00am
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cassidy Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik,
professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
5:30am
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11:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
All Quiet in the Outer Halo&mash;Chemical Abundances in dSphs and Outer Halo Globular Clusters
Andreas Koch,
research fellow,
University of Leicester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Highthroughput Microfluidics and Ultrafast Optics for In Vivo Compound and Genetic Discoveries
M. Fatih Yanik,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Liza Huijse,
graduate student,
University of Amsterdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation of Amphitheater-Headed Canyons on Earth and Mars
Michael P. Lamb,
assistant professor of geology,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Liza Huijse,
University of Amsterdam,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab
Robert Bernstein,
Fermilab,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Combinatorial Double Auction Exchange to Solve a Complex Environmental Problem: The Native Vegetation Exchange
Charles Plott,
professor of economics and political science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Xampling: Analog-to-Digital at Sub-Nyquist Rates
Yonina Eldar,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information
Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains
Joe Renes,
postdoctoral scholar,
Technical University of Darmstadt,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
How Do Galaxies Get Their Gas?
Dusan Keres,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Designing Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage
Yi Cui,
assistant professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
BMP Antagonists and Vertebrate Development
Richard Harland,
Dr. ,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Gamma-ray Bursts
Eliot Quataert,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,